Besides corrupted files, there’s another common issue that might be causing game crashes. It’s when High On Life is run with a feature called ‘Windows full-screen optimizations.’ While this feature is meant to make games run better by taking over the entire screen, it can sometimes interfere with the game’s own settings. This conflict can lead to the game stopping suddenly and displaying error messages. Disabling this feature could be the solution to stop these crashes.
1. Delete or Rename Win64
Since this error mostly occurs due to the corrupted content in the Win64 folder, we will start by deleting or renaming the Win64 folder. This is where the game keeps important files it needs to work on Windows computers. If something’s wrong here, the game might stop and show an error. Here’s a quick fix: try changing the name of this ‘Win64’ folder or just delete it. Don’t worry, it’s not permanent — the game will make a new one when you start it again.
2. Turn Off Full-Screen Optimizations
Since this feature is enabled by default, the Windows full-screen optimizations could conflict with the game’s optimization, causing it to crash or display fatal errors. Therefore, try disabling full-screen optimizations. To do so, follow the steps:
3. Remove Overclock settings
Incorrect overclock settings overheat the hardware components, which often leads to game or system crashes. Therefore, if you have overclocked any of your hardware components, such as GPU, CPU, or even RAM, then we recommend reverting the overclock settings to check if the low-level fatal error persists or not. For those who overclocked their RAM or CPU, navigate to the bios settings to reset the overclock settings.
4. Reinstall GPU drivers
Oftentimes, the game crashes due to outdated or corrupted graphics drivers. Graphics drivers play a significant role in providing smooth gameplay. Therefore, if your GPU drivers are outdated or corrupted, you will face crashes while playing High On Life. When it comes to reinstalling GPU drivers, we recommend DDU over the device manager because DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) removes the drivers along with the registry files. To reinstall GPU drivers using DDU, follow the steps:
5. Delete the saved game files
If there is corruption in the saved game data, you will also encounter this type of issue. Therefore, try deleting the saved game files using the following steps. Remember, deleting the saved game files will result in a loss of game progress. So if you don’t want to lose your game progress, you can manually decrease your graphics settings. To delete the saved game files, follow the steps:
6. Verify the game files
If you are still facing the issue, then you may have a corruption in your extracted game files, causing this issue. In this case, you can try verifying the game files, which will restore the corrupted files.
